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Apparel by Karma - Clothing with Purpose
Hey there guys. I'm going to make this post extremely simple and quick so I don't waste anyone's time. I have recently started a clothing line by the name of Apparel by Karma, which combines quality designer merchandise with reasonable pricing. We are actually geared to appeal to gamers for the most part, although anyone from any walk of life should be able to buy and enjoy our clothing, AND know that they are helping a good cause.

Apparel by Karma donates 5% of all profit each month to a different charity, whether it be for cancer research or for underprivileged kids. We also want to make sure that you get great looking merchandise without happening to spend an arm and a leg for it.

Lets take a step back for a second, backtrack about 10 months ago. My grandmother was diagnosed with something similar to brain cancer, and I almost truly felt the cold brush of death for the first time. Thanks to a few different charity organizations and some medical help, she is now doing much better, although it won't last forever. The reason this was able to happen was because of a YouTube video I made, and a cry of help that I made at a desperate time in my life.

The point is, charity changed my life, and since then I have been working hard to make a difference in the world myself. I'm posting on here simply because starting a new business is not an easy thing, especially when you're just a row-boat in the big ocean. In addition, being focused around charity makes it a little tougher to expand, which isn't discouraging for me at all. Life is nothing without a challenge.

Anyways, in an effort to get a step ahead and make Apparel by Karma successful, I am having a like/share contest on our Facebook page. It may not seem like much, but I have a feeling with the right amount of support I can really fulfill the goal I have. And I would really, really appreciate both your support and your input, guys.

www.facebook.com/apparelbykarma
Consider that this is an assembly line. So 4k workers going on strike will prevent others in the assembly line from getting the parts they need to continue working. 4k on strike can easily trigger a large work stoppage.
I hope the people behind IceBoxPro have revealed their real names, because they have no business in the software industry any more, and rightfully so.
A "Lord of the flies" scenario has some costs, and the island scenario set a rules : any of these 10 humans can not move to another island.

As snikto and enki discussed below (great explain guys!) : "using up resources is not valuable by itself. forcing someone to spend on anything, anything at all, does not lead to a good allocation of resources. it might increase GDP, but it does not create value"

I would even say that such a misallocation of resources has a cost - the opportunity cost of the alternative, the proper allocation of resources.

Nation-states existed in Europe before WW2. They may or may not always exist in the future, but now we have something new: countries which borders do not match the ethnic boundaries- the advantage is that citizens are not so strongly bound to a national identity, and thus can start pitting countries against each others.

There is competition between countries for skills. If you are talented and not lucky to have been born in a rich country, you can decide whether to immigrate to Canada, Australia, Germany (etc.) - this is a market.

If you have a european passport, with Shengen rules you freely decided where you are doing to work. Just look at where the talented greeks and spaniards go.

The island scenarios is more like offering people the choice between a german-run island or a greek-run island, each voting with their feet. Sure there still is a cost of having a government, but it's going down, and will go down as fast as new choices are offered.

Identification to nation-states was a limiting factor in the past, but there also seemed seemed to be some kind of network effect where it was harder to be a small country, as it there was some kind of cost (the higher risk of being invaded?)

Now look at Luxembourg and Singapore - it seems than being smaller is no longer a disadvantage.

Something is changing.
> it's not even a good reason, because it forces me to spend money.

It doesn't force you to spend money, it does however attach a cost to you hoarding your currency. This makes sense, because you're harming the system as a whole by hoarding. If you were allowed to hoard currency without paying some sort of price that would be an externality.
I can't tell if this is part of the satire or not ...
This really depends on how fast you can write CSS but if you use CSS3 media queries, you can style up a mobile version of your website pretty quickly.

Media queries, if not known about already, allow you to selectively apply CSS rules based on certain properties, like device width.

I tend to just make two stylesheets, one main one and one mobile one. The main one has an attribute:

media="screen and (min-device-width: 640px)"

and the mobile one has:

media="screen and (max-device-width: 640px)"

Everything in the main stylesheet will be applied to devices with a width higher than 640px, the mobile one applied to every device with a width lower than.

I find styling up a mobile website quite quick, since you naturally have less on there, but I guess that really depends on your website. I usually have an 'omissions' rule, where I apply 'display: none' to a bunch of elements that I don't want to show.

The core of my experience is mainly working backwards from a fully-featured site, which can get quite hairy from site to site depending on the developers. Standards and guidelines like no-presentation-stuff-in-html and avoidance of inline styles really do come in to play here.

If you need any help, I could have a look at your site and help you work out the best way forward. Shoot me an email at me@jameswdunne.com and I'll help out. All pro bono of course :)
Also on the House Science Committee is Todd Akin (R, MO), who claimed on Aug. 19, 2012 on a TV interview that pregnancy from rape is rare because "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" and that abortion shouldn't be allowed even if a pregnancy does result from rape because "the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
With a lot of them, though, the problem was that $100s of millions were being spent. MMO games--even niche ones--have guaranteed revenue; the problem has always been making a profit after incurring such high initial development costs. You fix this by making games for cheap--Korea is pushing cheap MMOs out by the dozens, and they're all turning tidy profits.
> As to legal risks - it's not the programmer who's facing them, it's his employer

I didn't consider this angle, because I've always been my own boss. I've never written programs for anyone else, which means I took home the money, not the grief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus

But as time passes, I see more and more cases where someone tries to patent something that should never be patented, which might eventually prevent people from writing programs at all.
That's get and no.
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That's my favorite too :)
They don't have to take all the big ones immediately. Just start a trend, and some of the big ones might join later once their contracts with the labels expire. They probably wouldn't be able to put their old songs there, but they could the new ones.
You want writes to flash to be as sequential as possible. Random writes to flash result in more wear and worse performance due to GC overhead.

Log-structured file systems tend to write data sequentially since the writes append to the log (yes - that's a gross over simplification).

File systems like ext4 maintain separate data structures for data and metadata and generate more random writes.
Here's a crazy idea.

A hedge fund puts a couple billion dollar short on Apple, and then pays 20,000 Foxconn workers $5,000 each to take the month off from tomorrow and go somewhere else. That's a $100m outlay for a vastly higher profit.

It's not a serious suggestion but it's feasible. It's an interesting situation - an extremely highly valued company underpinned by extremely cheap labour.
There are many ways of quantifying success. But regardless if you're a gangster or a shrewd business man, if your business made you (and your shareholders) filthy rich, it's not that far fetched for it to be considered it successful.
If I were a betting man, I'd say he doesn't actually believe that, he's just playing the political game and pandering to his voters. <warning: about to be excessively stereotypical> Or he's just from the Souf...
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Indeed.

This image was on reddit the other day, showing quotes from members of the House Science Committee.
There are no citations, but I don't doubt the quotes are true:
http://i.imgur.com/Uoua1.jpg

Truly disturbing.
That article is pretty light on the details, but one thing to note is that most sd card storage is relatively poor at random seeks, having been optimized for media type usage.
I don't know about you, but when I solve programming problems, I'm not exercising. And when I'm exercising, I'm not thinking abut programming except perhaps in the most general sense.

I'm just saying that it's pretty much accepted that sitting around a lot is bad for you.
> Bitcoins do not have value anymore then a paper dollar has value.

Actually slightly less, since paper dollars always have at least their joule value.
Gmail allows you to send from your other email addresses through the web interface. It is nice having multiple accounts in the same mailbox so they can share labels.

I don't think it's a violation of trust to have mail forwarded from one account to another account on the same provider. Email does not have an implied amount of security or privacy. Sending email is like sending a postcard--Anyone involved in its transit has the opportunity to read it.
In the US a straight up IQ requirement would quite possibly be unconstitutional because courts have found that IQ tests can have disparating impact on minorities.

I agree there should be something though... this isn't supposed to happen. Voters are supposed to not vote in utter morons, and they are supposed to be able to tell if someone is an utter moron because they had mandatory primary education.

Something is not working.

(Sadly, Paul Broun probably meets any education based requirements you could realistically propose. He has a B.S. in Chemistry and is an M.D. iirc)
Though, doxing seems to have a peculiar asymmetry. The doxee is revealed but the doxers remain anonymous (in some cases, Anonymous).

It seems that Chinese "doxers" are more open about their own identities.
Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to buy TomTom or Waze before buying Nokia? TomTom is much cheaper and Apple already has a cozy relationship with it. Not to mention Nokia is already in bed with Microsoft.

NOK: $10B market cap
TOM2: $800M market cap

Even then, TomTom comes with a lot of baggage. A savvy operations expert like Tim Cook would choke in disgust at the financial waste of such an acquisition.

Apple acquiring Waze makes the most sense. It only has 80 employees already in Palo Alto. It is still private and only has $67M in funding. Its only product is a mobile app. And its product is actually an advancement for navigation rather than stuck in the old world.
What do you guys think about hypermedia apis?
Any example of open source hyper media apis that i could look at for a good model to follow? Will it dissappear in a year from now like rest is doing?
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ScottyFactor for those like me that didn't know that term :)
Well, they can do that. See the first answer here:
http://www.spotify.com/uk/work-with-us/labels-and-artists/ar...
> And I don't see many occupations where the risk is much milder.

Yes, I agree completely. To me the problem is that programming is so lucrative and fun that it might make us too sedentary to be healthy.
It's great to see people using Chuck's work, and in particular it's wonderful to see your reaction. I think it would be easy to recoil at the strange tools, not to mention the difficulty of programming the thing. I agree it's a fascinating device.
It has to do with the way flash does writes. In flash it actually takes longer to overwrite a bit of data, than to write that bit on a 'blank', or previously initialized cell.

Furthermore if you are going to overwrite something in flash it usually behooves you to overwrite an entire block at a time. For these reasons flash systems tend to try to often write changes in a log manner, wait for a lot of changes to pile up and then incorporate those changes back into the original by rewriting entire blocks. The log can be placed in an initialized section of the memory where overwrites are not necessary.
Well, the quickest (in terms of initial dev time), would be to just use media queries or any of the tons of grid layout libs like (http://foundation.zurb.com/) or bootstrap. This also works great for small sites, or sites where you don't really care too much about optimizing for mobile - you just want something that looks decent and works with minimal extra effort. But in the long term if the site is rather large, (in my experience) it'd be better to consider building a different app for your mobile version. This lets you filter and modify what you send over http responses for mobile (so the images are smaller, certain sql queries don't get run, etc).
<sarcasm prevent-downvote="true">I don't get the joke, what so funny in an exact copy of hacker news in the past few months, only the links not working</sarcasm>
True, that claim was FUD. The problem bitcoin has is that there is no better refutation of the claim than yours. As politicians well know fud-slinging can be effective. When deciding whether to use bitcoin, people will either have to hold their nose and hope it is not true, or turn around and go elsewhere. The bigger bitcoin becomes, the greater the miasma.
This is not uncommon when criticizing bitcoin. "It can only increase in value, therefore it is worthless" is clearly a contradictory statement -- it's essentially arguing that no one will want to buy bitcoins because too many people want to buy them.
more users = more posts = harder to filter! but still great
Huge breakthrough in "direct to brain" learning
I think the "blame the victim" thing comes from people blaming rape victims because they wore a short skirt or attractive clothing. I would defiantly not support the blame the victim mentality in that kind of case. It might be completely different in the IP realm,
So you're saying that we should lock a programmer in a room and give him a blank sheet of paper for their "wishlist" and let them work non-stop?

It's about time we drop this whole mumbo-jumbo "software developer laser-focus work hours increase productivity through the roof".

At the end of the day, all of us are human being that is limited by something somehow.
Maybe you proved my point. Just look at how many ifs this theory depends upon.

1. That a civilization similar to ours exists
2. That such civilization exists in the same time frame as us
3. That such civilization's demands on energy are similar to ours
4. That such civilization expands enough to face energy shortcomings
5. That the best source of energy such civilization finds is a nearby star
6. That they arrive to the same conclusion as Mr. Dyson about the best way to harness the power from this star (the biggest pretension by far in my opinion)
7. That they manage to build it

A very interesting chain of propositions, but really? I find amusing that are people willing to take this more seriously than a simple imagination/future prediction exercise.

We can't even reliably predict how our own civilization will look like in a matter of decades. Now imagine how naive is to think we can predict which problems hypothetical begins similar to us are going to face, let alone predict a particular the solution they are going to come up with.
> I like it as it is.

Yes, and if you were the only person ever to read it, that would be a reasonable criterion.

It's generally accepted that people can be persuaded to read a long article, but only if the article is written in a way to get people started. Ninety points up front doesn't really entice those who don't read many books (the majority at present).

Just a suggestion for attracting readers.
My point is that if you go into your first job interview from college and say that you have 15 years experience then that's going to count against you because for right or wrong the question you're being asked is how many years have you been working in a professional work environment. By all means convince them of your passion, and explain that you've been doing awesome things with computers since forever. But "work experience" and "time from first exposure to computing" are two totally different things. Aside from that I agree with every thing you said.
Chances are his voters would vote for him regardless. He is representing Georgia and seems to reliably win by a landslide. The only threat he has is in the primaries, and the guy who is running against him doesn't even seem to have a wikipedia page.
Science fact on biological evolution can be found in the carefully written online FAQ "29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent."

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

Now that I've referred readers of Hacker News about where to find good information on the factual issue underlying the political controversy being discussed here, I'll note for the record that experienced and thoughtful participants on Hacker News have advised the community, when asked how to make the community better,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174656

"Not submit or upvote stories which are fundamentally about politics (even politics within a thirty mile radius of a computer!), because they predictably descend into value-free flame wars."

and

"I try hard not to respond to any political posts."

I think that flagging political articles to mark them as actively off-topic for this community is a very good idea.
Hahaha finally someone called it!
No, I'm awaiting a good opportunity to invest. If in my judgement there's currently nothing good on the market that I can invest into, why should I be paying the price? I don't quite understand. If you want my money, make something I want to buy/invest into. Inflation forces me to spend money on things I otherwise would not buy. Thus, it promotes goods and services that are not quite as good.

Also, I don't understand why do you consider hoarding a bad thing? If you agree that I honestly earned the money, than you should also agree that I am free to do with them whatever the hell I want. Currencies controlled by governments tax me with inflation, bitcoin doesn't (or at least, it's predictable, open and not controlled by one organization).

Upd: attaching additional costs (because there are other costs that are inherent to hoarding, like lost opportunity costs) is, in my view, forcing. It makes me it more likely that I spend the money. Let's not debate semantics.
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I don't know a lot about economics, so I don't see why spending is always the best thing to do.

Maybe spending doesn't lead to the best allocation of resources, as I could be blocking someone from using resources I bought, but cannot utilise as well as the other person could.
Yeah http://www.initializr.com/ is responsive and will work great on mobile.
When Google+ came out I was blown away by just how well designed it was, but then slowly Google ruined it. Andy Hertzfeld created an amazing product, but then Google worked their "magic" just like they did with Blogger and watered down every strong feature like circles.

The problem at the end of the day is that Google just doesn't understand "normal people". If you read up on their corporate culture they're filled with former gifted Montessori kids who make amazing engineers, but the dark side is that they may have a low social IQ. In fact Google goes out of its way to not have to interface with people: Have a problem with a Google product? Well good luck if you want to talk to a human.

So yes Google+ has amazing potential; but not with the Google management team. I'm sure over time if they're lucky they can turn it into Pepsi to Facebook's Coke -- but that's only if they figure out how to focus. And if you want to see their latest failure just try using their mobile app: When put next to Facebook it's terrible, and when put next to Instagram (now owned by facebook) it looks like student project.

And I say this as someone who loves and uses G+ every day!!!
My take: http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better
Come on, it's absolutely mundane and non offensive to call a thing or a behaviour retarded, it's really only offensive when talking about disabled or unintelligent people. For example:

"Steven Hawking is retarded" == offensive

"The design of this chair is retarded" == inoffensive
It is straightforward to convert stack instructions to 3-address instructions, by keeping a counter -- a stack pointer -- that points into the register file. As instructions are decoded the stack pointer is read and the current reading is delivered on down the pipeline with the instruction itself.

From there on, the cpu is executing an instruction that calls out explicit register numbers. The stack counter is kept with the decoder at the very start of the pipeline. This "register number decoder" needs to run sequentially, and it needs to run a faster cycle time than the rest of the cpu.
It's not as interesting, you're right, so it depends on your purpose. If your sole purpose is conversion (not providing information), that's the style of writing you should use.

Of course, where you are in search of more legitimate and technical discussion, you would be much more elaborate, but that is (strangely enough) unlikely to convert as well.
That would be true in a strictly hard currency world, as each dollar in circulation would become more valuable (because it would be increasingly more difficult to find another dollar to spend). However, when you take into account credit-based spending (i.e., loans, credit cards, etc.), the "limit" at which deflation kicks in gets pushed up significantly. I know there are papers/studies on this, but as I haven't had access to a university library subscription in a while, I couldn't provide sources.
Considering that the definition of the word "believe" is tied to concepts such as acceptance and opinion the answer is relative to number of non-critical thinkers out there.

Ask instead "how many US citizens KNOW the earth is less than 10,000 years old?" and the answer will be a smaller number.
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The problem isn't the politician's IQ. An intelligent politician who wants to be reelected will say the things his constituents want to hear, and implement the policies his constituents believe will make their lives better.

The problem is that he believes -- probably correctly -- that a significant portion of his constituency will find this argument compelling.
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